From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) Description of problem: In /etc/lpd.conf : printcap_path=/net/local/lib/printcap:/etc/printcap [root@viviane root]# lpq Read_file_list: cannot stat required file '/net/local/lib/printcap' - No such file or directory If the first file in the list doesn't exist LPRng doesn't try to use the others. From lpd.conf man : printcap_path (default: "etc/printcap:/usr/etc/print- cap:/var/spool/lpd/printcap.%h") The location of the printcap database information. If a file or filter does not exist, it is skipped. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. First file in printcap_path list doesn't exist. 2. 3. Additional info:
Should be fixed in LPRng-3.8.5-3. Thanks.
This change will be reverted in a future LPRng package; apparently it is the documentation that is wrong.